finding the big ones.

[StarTrekMike]

I suspect this has been asked before but I really need help with this.

I see poeple taking screenies of large high value targets like battleships and carriers, even the wonderfull passanger liners that make great food for my eels...but I cannot find them.

The biggest warship I have ever seen was a southhampton class (I made it a priority) and the biggest merchant I have seen is a whaling factory ship (in a convoy attack I had to abort with no success)

Is there a convoy route that I am missing...I look on that paper map that came with SH3 for good points where many routes intersect and even try some of the single merchant routes with no success...I only find small cargo and merchants and maybe a large cargo or merchant on a good day.

Any help from the seasoned commanders would be much loved.

Mike (U-1701)

[Packerton]

Aye, Stock Silent hunter 3 has barely ANY dynamic Task force traffic.

Your best bet is to download the Grey Wolves Expansion Mod, Current Version: GWX 1.3

It adds many many features and among them is dynamic realistic Task force traffic in areas such as the Med and the North Sea near norway.

Those areas are your best bet.

Or do you already have GWX?

[StarTrekMike]

I do run GWX and SH3 commander.

Is there a specific route that passanger liners (cunard liners) and such tend to travel?

should I look up passanger routes from that era?

Mike

[dmlavan]

I've found some Passenger Liners in the Med close to the Spanish coast (they were British). These were well off the "marked" convoy routes on the map. I've also found a few neutral liners around the Azores and Canary Islands, but refrained from attacking those.

For capital ships, other than escort carriers and the light cruisers I haven't found any, either.

[Hanomag]

The operation Spinnennetz sticky above has a nice intel map for merchant traffic... it is very accurate.

I posted recently about the Yucatan Strait, all I did was sink unescorted tankers there, it was crazy... I would let smaller tankers pass me by..few days later 2 Larges. :up:

As for warships... right place right time....I have numerous Patrols under my belt...

I have 2 Fijis and a Bogue Class Aircraft carrier...:nope:

You'll have to sift through the threads.. for juicy locations and other infos...

[Buhring]

Just for information: I found (and sunk) an R class battleship that was sailing with a convoy in BE 62 on Aug. 26, 1940.

Gute Jagd

Buhring

P.S. Running GWX 1.03 + SH3 Commander

[Brag]

Just for information: I found (and sunk) an R class battleship that was sailing with a convoy in BE 62 on Aug. 26, 1940.

Gute Jagd

Buhring

P.S. Running GWX 1.03 + SH3 Commander

Welcome aboard, Kaleun Buhring --excellent debut :D

[Fenris_Wolf]

If you have GWX installed, go to the navigation screen and on the upper left corner of the screen you will see edges of map sheets that you can pull down and bring into view. Among those is a detailed map showing convoy routes, merchant routes, areas of high naval traffic and air coverage radii around enemy ports according to each year of the war. That should be sufficient. Just patrol along a convoy route that connects the largest ports and you should find plenty of large tankers and passenger liners while battleships are more easily found by intercepting task forces or by raiding popular ports (much more fun to sink them while at sea).

[KeptinCranky]

If you hang out about 75km due south of Sardinia in early 1942 there's some very very juicy passenger liners passing by, I bagged 4 in a week, just make sure you identify them first because sinking Italians is bad for the war effort, and be quick or the stukas will get them :damn:

Locations for warships...try AM36, but not if you value your life too much

[U49]

Maybe you watch out for sh3gen.. This tool will provide you some simulated in-game intel reports about the enemy shipping.

see link:
http://www.global-explorer.de/